Oscar Diaz has died. He fell into a coma at the close of his fight with Delvin Rodriguez on FNF in 2008. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBUrCIgaQ-Q
I heard about this earlier. Terrible tragedy. Only 32 years old. :-( RIP SAN ANTONIO -- Oscar Diaz, a former welterweight boxing contender whose career ended when he suffered a debilitating brain injury in a fight nearly seven years ago, has died. He was 32. The Bexar County medical examiner's office confirmed that Diaz died Thursday. The agency had yet to determine a cause of death Friday. Diaz was in a coma for two months and spent seven months in a hospital after collapsing before the 11th round of a nationally televised USBA welterweight championship fight against Delvin Rodriguez in 2008. Diaz was 25 at the time. After emergency brain surgery, doctors were unsure how Diaz would recover. His brother, Fernando Diaz, told the San Antonio Express-News recently that Diaz had been living in a San Antonio nursing home and could not walk on his own.
Brutal. RIP Surprising the amount of punishment you see some popular fighters take yet fortunately don't suffer the same consequences... Brain damage is truly one of the worst things imaginable sometimes even worse than death which really does say something.
RIP Diaz. This is why nobody should ever play boxing, because when this can happen to pros, it can easily easily happen to those who f around with the sport of boxing.
